First wrestling together in 1989, Vader and Bigelow were a monstrous gaijin tag team that wrecked havoc in New Japan.. They had their first match together on January 20th, 1989 against Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami, but they would not become a regular tag team for several years. On March 21st, 1991 they would defeat Doom (Simmons and Reed) and after that became a more regular tag team. On March 1st, 1992 they would defeat Mutoh and Hase to win the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, becoming only the second gaijin pair to win the titles. They would successfully defeat Shinya Hashimoto & Masahiro Chono and Keiji Muto & Hiroshi Hase before losing the titles on June 27th, 1992 to The Steiner Brothers. That would be their last match together, as Bigelow would begin wrestling soon for the WWF and Vader would concentrate on his WCW career.